Deconstructing The Boundaries 2025
Tending To Communities
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens | July 26, 2025
This year’s 2024 symposium and public art commissions focus on the ancestral, cultural, and historical severance of knowledge and power as a result of colonization. Considered through the lens of artists, scholars, historians, and cultural practitioners, we invite participants to engage in meaningful dialogue, inspire sustainable futures, and create a platform for innovative, community-driven environmental justice.
Intertwining difficult conversations and hard truths with compassion and togetherness are the pillar upon which Deconstructing the Boundaries: Tending to Communities stands. As people of the global majority, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities have been historically disenfranchised, culturally erased and forced to be resilient. As concerned citizens of the world, we bear witness to social shifts and remain steady through political opposition, economic strife and social unrest. We create frameworks, models, and guides that demonstrate ways to be together and share resources and organize for the betterment of all peoples. Looking through the lens of ecological justice and rematriation,
Indigo Arts Alliance and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens commissioned the work of writer Arisa White and artist Daniel Minter to envision and create public art works that reflect the responsibility of life, love and identity amongst communities. We will honor our collective wisdom and forge new ways to be in harmony with the land known as Maine and beyond. We will share perspectives on how Black, Brown and Indigenous communities have created spiritual, traditional and cultural relationships to the land since millennia and continue to do so.
Maine Residency Gives Black and Brown Artists a Platform
Maine Residency gives Black and Brown Artists a platform to develop their craft.
